Early life listener questions

This episode is all listener questions, from start to finish. It's the final part to focus on Tom's pre-radio life.

• Understanding his father’s mental illness and how it shaped Tom’s childhood
• Learning to read at a very young age and using books as an escape
• Playing basketball at St. Anne’s and memories of his teachers
• Christmas traditions and his brother Terry returning home from Vietnam
• The friends and families who gave Tom support outside his own home
• Getting around Minneapolis by bus before he learned to drive
• Receiving a scholarship to Brown Institute and studying radio
• Tom’s rebellious streak and getting into trouble at broadcasting school
• The music and local bands that influenced him growing up
• Meeting musicians he had admired, including Ricky Nelson
• How Tom met former Viking Philip “Philly Dog” Wise
• Tom and Philly Dog’s decades-long friendship and his later role on the morning show